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Related: About this forumForbes: Why Bernie Sanders Didn't Vote on the Senate Planned Parenthood Defunding Bill
Some ignorant trouble maker that makes up stuff said he was out campaigning in GD-P. Didn't Obama get elected with a history of often voting present?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenkilloran/2015/12/04/why-bernie-sanders-didnt-vote-on-the-senate-planned-parenthood-defunding-bill/
Ellen Killoran
The U.S. Senate voted 52-47 on Thursday to repeal key provisions of Obamacare including the removal of federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Only 99 of a possible 100 votes were cast missing one Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), who earlier this week was hailed as a champion supporter of Planned Parenthood by way of an impassioned speech on the Senate floor.
In the wake of Fridays deadly shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic, Sanders spoke out against a witch hunt for an organization that provides critical health care services, from reproductive health care to cancer screenings and preventative services to millions of Americans.
Earlier in his speech, Sanders expressed his disdain for the political machinery driving the proposed legislation to dismantle the Affordable Care Act:
The bill we are debating today is a complete waste of time. This is just another reason why the American people have so little respect for the Congress. There are major crises facing our country, and the Republican leadership once again is attempting to repeal Obamacare . Obama is not going to sign a bill repealing Obamacare. I think that is not likely to happen.
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Forbes: Why Bernie Sanders Didn't Vote on the Senate Planned Parenthood Defunding Bill (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Dec 2015
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davidpdx
(22,000 posts)1. We should't wait for the ignorant troublemakers to acknowledge their stupidity
They are too busy creating new bullshit memes.
artislife
(9,497 posts)2. I hate that they won't take into account, context
Context in almost anything.
It is a very Noun verb object world over there.
I like to see the full language, you know, adverbs, adjectives, qualifiers, accusative, conditional, gerund...etc etc.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)3. This is the reason he wasn't there to vote
By the time of the final vote, Sanders had a plane to catch for New Hampshire,
Let them post crap we know the score. It's not like he has a private jet waiting for him.
smokey nj
(43,853 posts)4. Both Clinton and Obama had horrendous attendance records while they were running in 2008.
The 2008 Democrats missed a lot of votes in the primaries. McCain missed almost every vote in the general.
In 2008, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden both missed between 75 and 85 percent of the floor votes about a year away from the general election (10 to 13 months), which is where were at now. Obama missed nearly 90 percent, but that came down to 37 percent the following quarter.
But theres one reason Rubio may have called out John McCain specifically in defending his record: The Arizona senator missed nearly every single vote in the final seven months of his campaign.
Meanwhile, after Biden dropped out, he only missed 4.7 percent of votes in the following quarter; after Clinton lost the primary, she missed just 14.9 percent.
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/2/9645384/rubio-missing-votes
In 2008, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden both missed between 75 and 85 percent of the floor votes about a year away from the general election (10 to 13 months), which is where were at now. Obama missed nearly 90 percent, but that came down to 37 percent the following quarter.
But theres one reason Rubio may have called out John McCain specifically in defending his record: The Arizona senator missed nearly every single vote in the final seven months of his campaign.
Meanwhile, after Biden dropped out, he only missed 4.7 percent of votes in the following quarter; after Clinton lost the primary, she missed just 14.9 percent.
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/2/9645384/rubio-missing-votes
Autumn
(45,120 posts)5. The manufactured outrage of the day.
That's all they have